January 2005 On Friday, January 7th I conducted a Drumset Clinic at Olympic High School in Bremerton, WA. This clinic was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Sabian cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Yamaha drums and Remo drumheads. On Tuesday, January 18th I conducted a Percussion/Drumset clinic at Klahowya Secondary School in Bremerton, WA. This clinic was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Sabian cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Yamaha drums and Remo drumheads. On Friday and Saturday January 21st & 22nd I attended the NAMM Show in Anaheim California. I met with company personnel and checked out the latest gear! It was a great event and I spoke with many top drummers in the industry. Sabain introduced their new Vault Crash cymbals as well as their new Artisan Ride cymbal. This ride is like the old, old K sound from Turkey. It is the real deal! I am planning a trip to the Sabian cymbal factory later this year. On Friday, January 28th I gave a drumset/jazz band clinic for students at Bainbridge High School. February 2005 On Friday, February 4th I conducted a Percussion/Drumset clinic at North Mason High School in Belfair, WA. This clinic was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Sabian cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Yamaha drums and Remo drumheads. Thanks to Randy Grostick for having me out! On Saturday, February 5th I conducted a percussion clinic for the Grammy Award Winning Auburn High School Jazz Band. This was a Ted Brown Music sponsored event. This is a good jazz band! On Saturday, February 12th I hosted my annual Drumset Recital for my private students at Ted Brown Music in Tacoma, WA. Ecstasy In Numbers performed three selections at the end of the recital. THe recital went very well with many great performances by my students. Thanks to Mike and Rick for performing!! On Friday, February 25th, Ecstasy In Numbers performed at 9:30pm-1:30am at Panamonica's located at 1117 Tacoma Ave S. in Tacoma, WA. Admission: $5.00. THe performances was very well attended and went great. Thanks to Darin, Krissy and Rob for having us play!! For more information call: 253.468.4055. March 2005 On Friday, March 4th, Ecstasy In Numbers performed from 8:00-11:00PM at Grant's Pub located at 5110 Tieton Drive in Yakima Washington. Admission: $5.00. Thanks to all our fans who came out to see us! Call 509-575-2922 for more information. On Saturday, March 5th, I conducted a Master Class from 2:00-3:30 at Avalon Music located at 532 N. wenatchee Ave. in Wenatchee Washington. Admission: $25.00. Avalon Music at 509-663-7300. This Master Class was sponsored by Sabian cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Remo drumheads and Avalon Music. Thanks to Lance Leming for all your help!! The class went great. On Saturday, March 5th, Ecstasy In Numbers performed at the Emerald Station located at 29 North Columbia St. in Wenatchee, WA. from 7:30-11:00. The performance went great!! Thanks to Lance Leming for all you help!! On Friday, March 11th I conducted a Drumset Clinic at Shelton High School in Shelton Washington. This clinic was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Sabian cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Yamaha drums and Remo drumheads. Thanks to Susan Peters for having me out! On Tuesday, March 15th I performed at 8:00pm with Rick White and Ray Ohls at Rush’s Book Swappe and Coffee located at 312 No. Callow Avenue in Bremerton, WA THis was for the Olympic College Big Band jam Night. Thanks to Rick White for asking me to play! On Monday, March 21st I conducted a drumset clinic at North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo Washington. This was a Ted Brown Music, Yamaha, Sabian, Vic Firth and Remo sponsored event. On Friday, March 25th I conducted a drumset/percussion clinic at Quincy High School in Quincy Washington. This clinic was sponsored by, Sabian cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Yamaha drums and Remo drumheads. On Monday, March 28th I conducted a Percussion/Drumset clinic at Elma High School in Elma Washington. This clinic was sponsored by Yamaha, Vic Firth, Sabian, Remo and Ted Brown Music. April 2005 On Friday, April 8th I performed with the West Sound Jazz Trio featuring: Ray Ohls - Piano, Rick White - Bass and Garey Williams - Drums at The Lighthouse Cafe and Wine Bar located at 3388 NW Bryon St., Suite 100 in Silverdale, WA Admission: $5.00. 360-698-9463. On Friday, April 15th I conducted a Drumset Clinic at Fullerton College in Fullerton, California. This clinic was sponsored by Sabian, Vic Firth, Remo and Yamaha. Thanks to Bruce Babad for having me do the clinics! On Friday, April 22nd I conducted a Drumset Clinic at Truman Middle School in Tacoma, Washington. This clinic was sponsored by This clinic is sponsored by Sabian, Vic Firth, Remo and Yamaha. Thanks to Poul Brask for having me out! May 2005 On Monday, May 2nd I gave a drumset clinic at Music Villa located at 539 E Main Street in Bozeman Montana, 59715. The clinic was called Developing a Solo Vocabulary. For more information on Music Villa call: 406-587-8300. This clinic was sponsored by Sabian, Vic Firth and Remo. Thanks to Paul Decker for having me out! On Saturday, May 7th, Ecstasy In Numbers performed from 3:00-4:30 on the main stage at Memorial Park on Chelan Ave. in Wenatchee for the Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee, Washington. For more info about the Apple Blossom Festival Association call 509-662-3616. The performance went great!! I am happy to announce that I have joined the roster of drummers endorsing Latin Percussion products. I have been playing LP products for over twenty years. I believe LP sets the standard for Latin Percussion instruments. I currently use the following LP products: Mambo, Black Beauty, Black Beauty Sr. and Tapon Cowbells, Low and High Blast Blocks and the Dimpled Brass Cyclops Tambourine. My new quartet, Quorum performs a great deal of Latin music allowing me to utilize these great LP sounds including left foot Clave with a cowbell, "Horacio" style. I am honored to be representing LP at my performing and educational events! June 2005 On Friday, June 3rd I performed with the West Sound Jazz Trio featuring: Ray Ohls - Piano, Rick White - Bass and Garey Williams - Drums at The Lighthouse Cafe and Wine Bar located at 3388 NW Bryon St., Suite 100 in Silverdale, WA Admission: $5.00. For information call: 360-698-9463. Thanks to Lori and Dave for having us play! On Wednesday, June 15th from 4:00-8:00 I attended the Sabian Vault Tour at Donn Bennett Studios located at 13212 NE 16th St. #7, Bellevue, WA 98005. Phone: (425) 747-6145. Below is the press release for this event. Drummers, Mark your calendars for a very special SABIAN Cymbal Event. On Wednesday, June 15th the master cymbal craftsmen from SABIAN will arrive at Donn Bennett Drum Studio in Bellevue WA for the only Washington stop on the 2005 SABIAN VAULT TOUR. They will bring with them over 200 one of a kind and proto-type cymbals. Master cymbalsmith Mark Love will hand hammer and lathe custom cymbals on site to your specs. Sabian factory reps will be available to hand pick sonically matched cymbal sets personally for you. There will be extra special pricing and on hundreds of Sabian products. Go to our website at www.bennettdrums.com for more information. Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity. This was a great event!!! Thanks to Donn Bennett for hosting it! Ecstasy In Numbers will be rehearsing and writing new music through June and July. July 2005 On Thursday, July 7th Ecstasy In Numbers performed at 10:00PM at the ToST lounge located at 523 N. 36th Street, Space E in Seattle, WA. Admission price, $6.00. For more info call: 206.547.0240. On Saturday, July 30th, Ecstasy In Numbers performed at the Jazz in the Valley festival from 9:30PM-12:30AM at The Valley Cafe in Ellensburg, WA. Our very special guest was Bruce Babad on Saxophones. We had a great performance and look forward to next year!! Here a few comments from attendees at a past JIV festival: "Raw energy was available at the Valley Cafe in the form of Ecstasy in Numbers. This four-piece group with guest artist saxophonist Bruce Babad kept the crowd clapping in the cozy venue, including one group of Ellensburg High School music students." "This band is one of the best I ever heard. It is amazing," said Ellensburg High School junior Derek Davault. "I saw them last year and decided to spend the entire night here this year." "Jean Cicognani, a Swiss man who retired in Cle Elum, praised Ecstasy in Numbers as his favorite performer of the weekend." Daily Record For more info go to: http://www.jazzinthevalley.com . On Sunday, July 31st I performed with the Jazz in the Valley Festival All Star Big Band under the direction of John Moawad. This performance was held at the Main Stage at the Rotary Pavilion in downtown Ellensburg at 2:45PM. It was a great band and a great performance!! For more information about the JIV Festival go to: http://www.jazzinthevalley.com . August 2005 On Monday, August 1st I transferred my two educational videos, Developing a Solo Vocabulary and Rudiments Applied to the Drumset to DVD's. Stay tuned for the completion date to be announced soon! On Friday, August 5th I performed from 8:00-11:00pm with the Sound Jazz Trio featuring: Ray Ohls - Piano, Tom Brooks - Bass and Garey Williams - Drums at The Lighthouse Cafe and Wine Bar located at 3388 NW Bryon St., Suite 100 in Silverdale, WA Admission: $5.00. Thanks to Laurie and Dave for having us! On Saturday, August 20th, Ecstasy In Numbers performed from 2:30-5:00 at the Arts By The Bay Festival in Poulsbo, WA. This was held outdoors at the Waterfront Park in Poulsbo, WA. We had a great performance!! Thanks to all for having us. On Sunday, August 21st, Quorum performed from 1:00-3:30 at the Arts By The Bay Festival in Poulsbo, WA. This was held outdoors at the Waterfront Park in Poulsbo, WA. This wnet great. Stay tuned for future Quorum performances. September 2005 On Monday, September 12th I visited the SABIAN cymbal factory in New Brunswick, CANADA and selected an updated set of SABIAN cymbals!! I toured the factory and saw the manufacturing process for all of Sabian's cymbals. The highlight was spending the day in the SABIAN Vault with Mark Love selecting cymbals. Mark Love has amazing ears and, when describing a cymbal, was able to help me select some and create some for me as well. I was able to go through 40+ ride cymbals and selected the best sounding Hand Hammered Bounce Ride. Mark had the cymbal craftsman create a Prototype ride that sounds amazing. I was also able to go through many crash, splash, china and other effects cymbals and select a set that sounds great together. They were able to tune some cymbals with additional lathing, hammering and adding rivets to my new big band china cymbal. I took all my cymbals and was able to select a second set of some of my crashes and splashes. They also cleaned and restamped new updated logos on all my existing cymbals. I have been a big Sabian fan for many years and after the factory visit I am even more impressed with the attention to detail, quality workmanship, incredible sounding cymbals and, best of all, all the staff were so polite and helpful. I would like to thank Mark Love, Ann MacNally, Wayne Blanchard, Robert Mason for the factory tour, Greg Hart and Jonathon Yip for all your assistance. I would also like to thank Christian Stankee and Dom Famularo for making this trip possible. You folks are the greatest. I look forward to another visit in the future. Thank you SABIAN!!!! For pictures of my visit go to the SABIAN website. On Saturday, September 17th the Sound Jazz Trio with Ray Ohls-Piano, Rick White-Bass and Garey Williams-Drums performed from 8:00PM-12:00AM at the Spar Cafe & Bar located at 114 4th Ave E. in Olympia, WA 98501. We had a great time and good crowd. Thanks to The Spar for having us play! (360) 357-6444. On Friday, September 30th I performed with Variety Pack from 9:00PM-12:00AM at the Blue Olive located at 1715 Dock St. in Tacoma, WA 98402. We played 90 minutes of Smooth Jazz and dance music. For more info call (253) 383-7275. October 2005 On Saturday, October 1st, Ecstasy In Numbers gave a private performance for Thomas' birthday party!! Thomas and his buddy, Pat are two of EIN's biggest fans. This was a secret to Thomas and a real treat to see his reaction when we arrived! It was a blast performing our music for his SURPRISE party!! Thanks to all who came to celebrate. On Friday, October 14th I gave a Percussion Methods Refresher Course for band directors from 10:00am-12:30pm at Ted Brown Music in Tacoma. I covered orchestral percussion and drumset. This class was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Sabian, Vic Firth, Remo, Yamaha and LP Percussion. On Monday, October 24th I conducted a Drumset/Percussion Clinic at Fairview Junior High in Bremerton, WA. This clinic was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Sabian, Vic Firth, Remo, Yamaha and LP Percussion. On Friday, October 28th I conducted a Drumset Clinic at Olympic High School in Bremerton, WA. This clinic was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Sabian, Vic Firth, Remo, Yamaha and LP Percussion. On Sunday, October 30th I performed at 7:00-10:00pm with the Ray Ohls Quartet (David Aaron Johnson-Flute and Sax, Ray Ohls-Piano, Rick White-Bass, Garey Williams-Drums) at the Ponderay Cafe Lounge located at 610 N Callow Ave. in Bremerton. For more information call:360- 479-4487. November 2005 On Friday, November 4th I spent the day teaching at Central Washington University in Ellensburg Washington. I gave a private lesson, a drum clinic and worhed with the first Jazz Band and Jazz Choir. Thanks to Chris Bruya and Vijay Sing for having me out. On Friday, November 4th I conducted a Drumset Clinic from 4:30-6:00pm at Ellensburg High School located at 1203 E Capitol Ave, Ellensburg, 98926 - (509) 925-8300. This clinic was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Yamaha, Sabian, Vic Firth, Remo and LP Percussion. Thansk to Don May for having me out. On Friday, November 4th, Ecstasy In Numbers performed at 8:00pm in the Central Washington University Music Department Recital Hall in Ellensburg, WA. Admission: $5.00. This was a great event with a full house. Thanks to all who came out to see us play! On Saturday, November 5th I conducted a Master Class at Ted Brown Music from 3:00-4:30 located at 2612 West Nob Hill Blvd., Suite B in Yakima, WA. The class was called: Developing A Groove Vocabulary. In this class, I covered a variety of styles of grooves: Rock, Funk, R&B, Fusion, Latin (Brazilian and Afro-Cuban), and Jazz styles. I taught the rhythmic foundation and how to develop the coordination to groove and improvise in each style. Beginners to advanced students were welcome! This class was sponsored by Ted Brown Music, Sabian, Yamaha, Vic Firth, Remo and LP Percussion. Class Fee was $25.00. On Saturday, November 5th, Ecstasy In Numbers performed at 8:00-10:30PM at Grant's Pub located at 5110 W. Tieton Drive, #100 in Yakima Washington. Admission: $5.00. Call 509-575-2922 for more information. On Saturday, November 12th I onducted a Rudimental Clinic from 2:00-3:30PM for the Yamaha Snare Drum Tour at Ted Brown Music located at 6228 Tacoma Mall Blvd. in Tacoma Washington. Yamaha had many of it's Signature Series Snare Drums available to play on. Thanks to David Haaga for inviting me to give this clinic! On Saturday, November 12th I performed with the Ray Ohls Trio (Ray Ohls-Piano, Rick White-Bass, Garey Williams-Drums) at 8:30-11:30 at the Island Grill located at 321 High School Road, Suite #1, Bainbridge Island, WA. For more information call: 206-842-9037. On Friday, November 25th I performed with the Ray Ohls Trio from 9:00pm-12:00am at Bottoms Up located at 1500 NE Riddell Road, Suite D in Bremerton, WA. For more information call: 360-479-9396. December 2005 On Saturday, December 3rd, Ecstasy In Numbers performed at 8:00 at Art House Designs located at 420B Franklin St. SE in Olympia, WA. Admission: $10.00. For more information call: 360-943-3377. We premiered three new pieces!

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